Date: Thu, 22 Jul 1999 01:00:57 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Oscar Bonilla <obonilla@fisicc-ufm.edu> Cc: Kris Kennaway <kkenn@rebel.net.au>, "David E. Cross" <crossd@cs.rpi.edu>, Joe Abley <jabley@patho.gen.nz>, Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com>, Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@flood.ping.uio.no>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PAM & LDAP in FreeBSD Message-ID: <3795EEB9.1A21EEA@newsguy.com> References: <199907201520.LAA29350@cs.rpi.edu> <Pine.BSF.4.10.9907210141030.41996-100000@morden.rebel.net.au> <19990721094711.C1520@fisicc-ufm.edu>
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Oscar Bonilla wrote: > > There are three parts to the problem: > > 1. Where do we get the databases from? I mean, where do we get passwd, group, > hosts, ethers, etc from. > > This should be handled by a name service switch a la solaris. Basically > we want to be able to tell the system for each individual database where > to get the stuff from. We can add entries for each database in the system. I perceive here an unfair biasing toward nss. Someone mentioned defining where to get the passwords from based on the login class. This is a very interesting option, that doesn't seem to be well served by nss. -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "Your usefulness to my realm ended the day you made it off Hustaing alive." -- Sun Tzu Liao to his ex-finacee, Isis Marik To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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